Big Ideas Summit 2016: Big Idea #30 – Buy Social Challenge

Supply chains need to be transparent, and also more socially and environmentally sustainable. That’s why we’re challenging professionals to ‘Buy Social’.

At the Big Ideas Summit 2016, we challenged our thought leaders to share their Big Ideas for the future of procurement.

From ideas that have the potential to change the very nature of the procurement profession, to ones that got the assembled minds thinking about the profession’s impact outside of the organisation, the response we received was amazing.

Buy Better, Buy Social

Peter Holbrook, CEO of Social Enterprise UK, introduced the assembled professionals to the ‘Buy Social Challenge’. The aim of the Challenge is to grow £1 billion of spend in the UK with social enterprises.

Peter argues that procurement needs to make supply chains much more transparent, as well as more socially and environmentally sustainable. By working with social enterprises, they can both do well, and do good, at the same time.